Kendell
Kendell is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,615 among girls’ names and #3,900 among boys’, #6,564 among all names counting both); 6,759 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,270 Americans named Kendell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendell?
#3,900 among boys’ names, 2025
Kendell fell from #2,399 in 2015 to #3,900 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 16.4 per million.
167 babies in 1995, the peak
Kendell peaked in 1995, when 167 babies were given it (110 boys, #1,075 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,615 | 28 | #3,900 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,251 | 32 | #3,561 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,809 | 35 | #3,380 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,788 | 26 | #4,142 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,723 | 26 | #4,071 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,491 | 42 | #2,865 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,371 | 53 | #2,506 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,900 | 35 | #3,269 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,411 | 43 | #2,823 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,381 | 52 | #2,453 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,046 | 54 | #2,399 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,057 | 62 | #2,187 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,539 | 60 | #2,189 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,146 | 64 | #2,116 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,109 | 81 | #1,787 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,150 | 83 | #1,786 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,070 | 81 | #1,834 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,048 | 108 | #1,512 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,273 | 79 | #1,840 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,796 | 84 | #1,692 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,948 | 83 | #1,640 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,314 | 88 | #1,523 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,855 | 80 | #1,581 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,172 | 97 | #1,364 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,447 | 93 | #1,372 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,649 | 102 | #1,272 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,281 | 110 | #1,175 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,171 | 90 | #1,326 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,901 | 101 | #1,181 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,531 | 87 | #1,268 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,319 | 110 | #1,075 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,148 | 95 | #1,170 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,395 | 103 | #1,103 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,907 | 98 | #1,110 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,324 | 117 | #987 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,566 | 129 | #905 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,067 | 127 | #897 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,086 | 88 | #1,059 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,507 | 87 | #1,018 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,875 | 83 | #1,017 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,665 | 71 | #1,104 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,494 | 62 | #1,158 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,368 | 65 | #1,114 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,706 | 62 | #1,171 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,241 | 66 | #1,129 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,262 | 61 | #1,169 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,414 | 68 | #1,082 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,545 | 80 | #967 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,055 | 49 | #1,278 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,029 | 59 | #1,105 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,522 | 47 | #1,246 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,935 | 52 | #1,144 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,856 | 29 | #1,629 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,787 | 38 | #1,376 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,018 | 56 | #1,094 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,784 | 45 | #1,246 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,012 | 43 | #1,210 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,336 | 44 | #1,137 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,381 | 39 | #1,208 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,831 | 40 | #1,186 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,198 | 40 | #1,214 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,786 | 45 | #1,154 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,089 | 49 | #1,097 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 31 | #1,410 | |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,080 | 31 | #1,450 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,958 | 43 | #1,197 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,291 | 23 | #1,689 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,617 | 34 | #1,328 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,556 | 24 | #1,655 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 19 | #1,860 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 18 | #1,879 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 12 | #2,374 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 19 | #1,798 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 12 | #2,322 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 10 | #2,566 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 11 | #2,379 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 15 | #1,983 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 21 | #1,633 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 13 | #2,208 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,038 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,068 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,549 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 13 | #2,118 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 19 | #1,620 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,008 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 10 | #2,360 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,761 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 9 | #2,585 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #3,115 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,947 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,470 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,250 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 8 | #3,159 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,449 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,966 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #4,117 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,654 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,051 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,490 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kendell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,759 Americans recorded as Kendell, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kendell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendell, and how old are they?
6,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 6,759 Americans ever recorded as Kendell. The median Kendell alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 5,235 people named Kendell (1,778 women and girls, 3,457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 359 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 924 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 811 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kendell born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #843 | 3.5× |
Where Kendell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kendell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1919 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kendell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,382 babies since 1880, Kendell is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 40 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kendell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kendell and names like it
- Compare Kendell and KendelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKendell peaked in 1995.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendell since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Kendell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kendell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.